Re: DS MIB - please review this list...

[Juergen Schoenwaelder <schoenw@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>]

>>>>> Fred Baker writes:

Fred> The InetAddress approach helps, in that people are on notice
Fred> that they should be able to store a 16 byte address in one. It
Fred> is not future-proof, however. If in the future we come up with
Fred> an IPv17Address of 31 bytes, we are guaranteed to be storing the
Fred> string in a fixed length container of 16 bytes. A variable
Fred> length object would be better.

InetAddress is of size (0..255) which will work just fine with 31 byte
addresses (but not with 256 byte addresses).

/js